Ontology learning is the process of acquiring (constructing or integrating) an ontology (semi-
) automatically. Being a knowledge acquisition task, it is a complex activity, which becomes …

Often, in the real world, entities have two or more representations in databases. Duplicate
records do not share a common key and/or they contain errors that make duplicate matching …

The problem of merging multiple databases of information about common entities is
frequently encountered in KDD and decision support applications in large commercial and …

Many commercial organizations routinely gather large numbers of databases for various
marketing and business analysis functions. The task is to correlate information from different …

Awareness of data and information quality issues has grown rapidly in light of the critical role
played by the quality of information in our data-intensive, knowledge-based economy …

[57] ABSTRACT A method for processing an image, consisting of a fore ground and a
background, to produce a highly compressed and accurate representation of the image …

When integrating information from multiple websites, the same data objects can exist in
inconsistent text formats across sites, making it difficult to identify matching objects using …

Data Quality provides an exposé of research and practice in the data quality field for
technically oriented readers. It is based on the research conducted at the MIT Total Data …

Record linkage is the task of quickly and accurately identifying records corresponding to the
same entity from one or more data sources. Record linkage is also known as data cleaning …

Information is a valuable resource to an organization. Computer software provides an
efficient means of processing information, and database systems are becoming an …